Last time I actually enjoyed something from Ubisoft was probably AssCreed Syndicate, and I never even got around to finishing it... so it's been awhile for me there 😊
And there was a time when I was dying for a japan times assassin's creed game. I haven't played them since black flag. I can't remember the last ubisoft game I was excited for or even played.
Probably blame them for being upset about being monetized further, claim they are taking food out of his kids mouths by not allowing the company to sell their data.
Kindly reminder: that guy, yes, the one responsible for implementing gambling in kids games, thinks you're not a good person. How can you live with that? 😢
The fact that AC set in Japan, the one game people clamored after for over a decade and begged Ubi to make, was possibly the final nail in the coffin for Ubi is almost ironic. It should've been a slam dunk, easy money, tons of goodwill, millions of sales... instead, this is happening. How catastrophically bad has to be the c*ck-up-cascade of events that literally snatches defeat from the jaws of victory? This bad apparently.
"Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory"... I like that expression, gotta remember it 👍 You're absolutely right, it's mind boggling how tone deaf, ego-driven and stubborn the head of the company Yves Guillemot must be to rather tank his whole business before admitting any wrongdoing. Old fool. His failure is well deserved.
@@TheUncannyObserver I didn't say it was going to be some world-breaking work of art, it's Ubi after all. However, the setting and time period alone could've easily sold the game, even if it was going to be generic.
What makes this especially ironic to me is that I'm pretty sure they still own the Watch Dogs IP, the setting of which was conceptually built around the evils of collecting, buying and selling personal data. "Do as I say, not as I do," is it guys?
I'd personally love to see AC set in Haiti. I know many don't know the culture, but I've grown up with Haitians all over Montreal, Qc. They have a really rich culture.
All they had to do was make an AC game where you get to be a generic samurai and run around killing people as a samurai, just keeping it relatively generic and predictable, and it would’ve done well.
So the slop Ubisoft has been making with AC games of late? That just shows without cultural issues, gamers would continue to stupid and purchase games that gradually became worse and worse.
@@XBluDiamondX How does that make sense? If there is value in one that has to be created from scratch, then there is value in one with little details known. They are free to do things in the timeline someone that is said to be here or there. It's the same thing, except one existed and has been done countless times in historical fiction from videos games to film.
Imagine if they used a Japanese character for AC Valhalla. Lol. It would be a shjt storm. They have to be blind to not see the backlash coming for AC Shadows.
CDPR is also mismanaged company. Remember CP77 mess? They at least admitted. After game release and was heavily criticized for messy game. Too busy bragging about how many sold them "apologizing" which that "apology" was said to their investors. Not to customers. Funny thing is they hired some of the Ubi workers to work on their game.
@@xXSilentAgent47Xxcyberpunk ended up being a masterpiece after 2.0 and PL, at the beginning it was a buggy mess but the bones of a great game was at least there, after more time passed and they apologised and worked on the game instead of abandoning it and now it’s widely considered one of the best role playing games ever made
The skincolor of the protagonist in their upcoming release is the LEAST of Ubisoft’s troubles right now, regardless of what your echo chamber tells you, mate. Being “woke” has never tanked a game. Being bad and boring has. Tons of “woke” games sell stupid numbers of games. Look at Overwatch defining a decade of shooters, and they used literal diversity scores during development. The problem Ubisoft devs are facing is that their “wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle” approach to game design has failed. Same as Bethesda.
@@zerg0s Overwatch only recently started with the diversity scores. Ironically it also started doing poorly rather recently. I am not saying diversity tanks games. Its no causation. But its a correlation. Because if devs focus on diversity so much, thats a symptom of the problem that they don't care enough about the core qualities of their game.
@@christianalanwilson434 You might want to look into the influence the CCP has on every single Chinese company. And then you might want to look into how the CCP stokes the political divide in America.
A few people I know cancelled their AssCreed Shadows pre-orders after that trailer where they played hip-hop music during a fight. I just can't fathom the decision making process (or more likely the lack thereof) that lead them to this point.
Did you know that preordering exists because highly sought-after PHYSICAL products may run out of stock when launched? Did you also know that digitally distributed products CAN'T run out of stock? It takes an elite, top 0.1% crayon muncher to preorder any game whatsoever. You should consider finding new friends.
woke DEI hires destroy your game and your team both upper and lower devs and management over time like it or not thats the truth if one DEI hire is on the dev team its only a matter of time before it flares up like this :)
People should have done that YEARS ago… I haven’t touched Ubisoft since all the shadiness with the model of Desmond. If people are so shocked about their practices now they are certified stupid.
I pretty much swore off Ubisoft when the abuse allegations came in and was swept under the rug. Considering the mediocrity of their later games after that incident, it seems that I wasn’t missing much…
The return to office push lately is partly due to corporate/commercial rent. No point in owning big ass office space if no one wants to rent it from you.
Is going back to the office really that big of a deal? I mean its only 3 days. With all due respect a job is a job and if they need you to come in then I don't understand what the problem is. I always felt like working from home is a temporary luxury. I had family that also worked from home, and they are required to show up in person at least two or three days out of the week.
@@kinG_Killer888Yeah, I’m in software development, went back to the office as soon as I got the chance. People crying about it are so fucking arrogant and entitled, I swear. Most IT companies have great offices, with free food, drinks, fun rooms, high-end chairs, desks, etc. and a flexible work schedule, you can come and go as you please. Meanwhile people are clocking in at a factory at 6 am in the morning or working a 12 hour shift on an oil rig….
@@peterk2735 I don't want to go to the office. Why? Because it's a waste of time, energy and money. I waste 2 hours on the metro crowded with 10 billion people. I hate that, everyone hates that. I waste money paying for said metro. Then it would require me to live in a more expensive area. Who's going to pay for the rent? I will. Instead of saving money, I'm required to spend money. Then my home setup is way better than what I have at the office and no, I can't come and go as I please. If you or others want to go to the office, but my guest, but don't drag others into it. I don't need to see my coworkers to do my job, it's a very individual job that I do, looking at tables with financial numbers all day. If I want to talk to them, I can call them. Then in terms of energy, on the one day that I do go to work, when I return I fall dead in my bed and sleep for 10-12 hours. I don't have the energy to do anything else. Then the company gets to save money on rent, money it can spend on something else. They can also save on fun rooms, free drinks (we don't have that) and whatnot, I don't care about any of that, I never used any of that. I just want to work. I don't know how that's entitled and arrogant, wanting to do my job instead of free drinks. I have running water at home, I can drink that.
Also needs to sack most of its staff and hire normal people for once and not idiots who can't handle working 3 days a week and some reason feels the need to bring a hamas flag and pride flags the speds
The original developers from Assassin's Creed were long gone. The game devs they currently have are the ones who tarnished the game's company's reputation. Restructured or bought, the same people who started this infestation and ruined the series are the cause of downfall.
8:31 By historical experts they meant Thomas Lockley a white man that went to Japan read the only two letters that even mention Yasuke and made entire books about the man that are fictional and then has constantly gone onto Wikipedia to mess around with the page and he is the main source for everything Yasuke in the last decade
Incorrect. Him being white shouldn't be an issue, that's a stupid argument thinking you need to be of the same race as those that are of the culture to study it's history. I can't tell if that's racist or just stupid. It was an interest of his and he wrote the book alongside an actual writer. He lives in Japan and has for 20 years, thus why he worked at the university. Letters? One letter was by the Jesuits that brought him there and the other was part of Nobunaga's autobiography, a scroll. Kind of how we get history from anything, little or much of documentation from the past. Yes, he did fabricate scenarios in the book about events not in history, but that was actually said when the book was first put out. People are acting as if that was a hidden fact when they read like inserted scenarios because you can't have that level of detail through any accounts. He was editing information through his own handle, partly his name and had the place where he lived (can't remember it off top of my head), so it was never secretly done. You can look and see it was obviously him. He was adding his information to the subject, which many people do on Wiki as anyone can edit it, the only thing questionable is it seemed like a bit of promotion as the book was going to be released soon after. He is also writing a book on a Japanese man taken as a slave by the Chinese and ended up in Europe, going by the name of Christian in a period where no one would think a Japanese was outside the country. Far less known. I wonder the scandal that will bring up. The only thing I don't like about Lockley was being a consultant on the game and never saying anything about it. Didn't have to, but would have been valuable information when he went to talk about it here and there. The rest is ill-informed TH-camrs, people that know nothing of Japanese history in the first place and racists that don't' want to see black people in anything. The Metatron has been the one channel that has covered the subject and drama accurately and would school anyone trying to peddle rumors and things historically untrue, if challenged.
@@aziki001 Why would I need to be paid for stating facts? Because you disagree with them or you think it's defending something? No, ignorance offends me and it's rife on this subject and anything surrounding it. Lockley could be an activist for all I care, but making crap up just makes anyone only bolstered by hating this or that make arguments against DEI/ESG ring hollow if backed by stupid people.
@@bigsyrup8567 A lot of the issue stems from them moving to areas with a lot lower COL expenses when Covid was in full swing and now they are being told to basically "drop all that and suck up the higher COL costs" without a pay rise to compensate... Would you want to move to an area that has lower COL expenses and then be told by the company you work for to pack everything up and move back to an area that's way more expensive without getting a pay rise to help out? I sure as hell wouldn't!
I don't think it's unfair, but it is inefficient and annoying. And I don't get this "sa moara si capra vecinului" mindset. So, because essential workers suffered, others must also suffer? That's a very communist mindset. The logic of: if I'm poor, others should also be poor, but it's fine, because now we're all equally poor. How about getting richer?
To be honest do we really care if the employees leave, if the studios fold, or if ubisoft even collapses completely? As gamers they haven't produced a single good game for us since covid. I truly believe the covid era of game development resulted in mostly bad games from all AAA devs. People were pushed to wfh without any real processes and tools in place to manage virtual work, DEI took over hiring practices and game design, and live service/GaaS/monetization took over most games.
They were bad before. The fact so many gamers gobbled up their slop means you get what you deserve in the end, everything leading to this point by consumers not taking an issue until cultural divisions pointed a finger at them.
@@blumiu2426 *the US gov and companies shadow ban only ones saying DEI woke bad* you - "no one is doing anything tee hee its all your fault" yea no clearly ppl are pushing on this but clearly other powers far greater than us are shutting us down for years glad you have such a small IQ you can live in blissful ignorance to the world and how it plays out
6:26 trying to tell someone that its not true and have nothing to backup his claim is telling me that the character was going to be a Japanese male. I believe the insider that said they race swapped the character because they brought more knowledge of why ubisoft race swapped the character.
Who would have thought that assassins creed set in japan that folks have wanted for such a long time might be the very last game Ubisoft makes. Oh well RiPbozo.
Yasuke should have been an NPC, just like every other historical figure in all the other AC games. People want to play in feudal Japan as a Japanese character.
They never should've made AC feudal Japan. Japan was notoriously isolasionist they're not gonna let in some weird Templars or hooded people from the Middle-East. They should've just remade the original AC in the crusades. Also the setting has been done better by GOT and the only possible story has already been told by Shogun. There's nothing there for AC to win.
One of the reason employees are so upset to return to the office is probably because back during the pandemic they were promised they would not have to do so. That's what most tech companies did back then. This is exactly what happened with Blizzard. I had an interview with Blizzard back in 2021. I live in Canada, so I asked if I would have to move California when shit gets better, I remember the recruiter scoffing at me "no of course not, we'd never ask you to do that". 2 years later, everyone has to go back to the office or resign. I'm glad I didn't get the job in the end. I'm pretty sure this is exactly what's happening there too. I used to work at EA, and at least, they didn't break that promise... yet.
I’ll sound like an ass, but anyone over the age of 25 who believes a corporate recruiter or a “promise” from a company is extremely naive. Especially during the pandemic, any recruiter who claimed they wouldn’t make you go back to the office was flat out lying, because nobody knew what was going to happen or what regulations governments would impose after the lockdown was lifted
@@bobsemple9341 He's not wrong. If OP wanted a guarantee he wouldn't been faced with losing his job vs moving to California, he would have demanded a written and signed agreement the company wouldn't force him to return to office. I doubt a company would want to make a contract like that, but it's the only way not to be get screwed over.
Yes. People in European countries value their time, if they don't need to work from office why should they be forced? The American mind will never comprehend a work life balance
A lot of cultural insensitivity they probably saw even started long before DEI and the like. I got in trouble at a job for being "racist" in 2015. Well not in trouble but she openly threatened to call me such...because I tried to get her to understand that our offshore team was NOT in the US and had a different culture and she needed to take that into account. To some of these people racism is literally just daring to say they can't assume and treat everyone as if they were American in America.
@@bigsyrup8567 For whom? The US has something like 4.25% of the world population. And if anything, it's a very different culture to the rest of the world, sometimes for the better, other times for the worse. I watch US news more for entertainment value, not because it greatly impacts my day to day life.
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Never forget, Endymion doesn't care for truth, he doesn't care whether there is any proof to these claims, he is only interested in content and in stirring up shit, doesn't mean he's always wrong, but I find that approach detestable nonetheless.
Endymion is a pathological liar and grifter. He was a failed Souls-games lore channel before grifting on the anti-woke movement. He has no insider contacts, he just makes stuff up to appeal to his audience which would turn him to shreds once the truth comes out
@@Buexta it’s painfully obvious that many content creators, and consequentially their audiences, have elected to use certain ‘buzzwords’ to explain every problem in every industry. Videos titled with words like ‘Woke’ and ‘DEI’ pandering to people who want simple answers to actual problems, something to blame for all the crap these companies are expecting us to spend our money on. Saying that ‘woke’ is what’s killing gaming is just lazy. Games with diversity have done exceptionally well, while others have failed spectacularly. BG3 has all the ‘woke’ elements that normally have people freaking out, yet it won game of the year. Spiritfarer, Stardew Valley, Fallout, etc are all examples of great games that have themes, content, and/or characters that could easily be classified as ‘woke’ yet are still beloved games. Usually, what ends up differentiating a good game from a bad one is the passion that went into its creation. People who are working on something they genuinely care for, who want it to be as good as it can be, who aren’t pressured into compromising their projects by executives who only care about mass-market appeal and push for lazy products that are easily digestible for simple-minded audiences. How can anyone create anything meaningful and novel when the higher-ups are too fearful of a flop to green-light a game that takes risks? A game that has a strong identity and creative ideas? You can’t, which is why we don’t get games like that. Not from the big studios anyway.
I'll buy the game if they put a japanese man as a protagonist in AC Shadows, yasuke can be there as a side-character giving missions out, just like other AC games where "historical" figures (even though he's not) have been included which in ALL of the AC games...
You mean except Japan and China have interacting for a millennia until the sengoku period right. This extends to architecture as well; the ancient capital of Heian-kyo was modeled on what is today Xian in northwest China, then the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and for a period, the Japanese regularly sent envoys to China, and many Japanese students studied and took the civil service exams in China. 👀
@@joeblack2809 😂😂😂 So are you an Ubisoft Employee or a rare unicorn trying to defend Ubisoft? I know the history quite well. How they are most likely immigrants from China though a stroke would be triggered if uttered to Japanese chap especially a nationalist. What you raise isn’ completely off the mark but what I am talking about is the very specific problems in the game been pointed like errors in emblems of the three clans and architecture and so on and the big fail with the Nagasaki Gate
@@joeblack2809 The Heian period is HUNDREDS of years removed from the end of the Sengoku era. That's like saying a game set in Industrial Revolution London should look like pre-Norman invasion London.
@@fattiger6957 EXACTLY! Which only PROVES the Chinese cultural influence on Japanese in its early history and then later throughout the centuries 😂🤣😂. Hell how tf did you know think Buddhism spread TO AN ISLAND?!?
if historical experts weren't brought in from the start that in itself confirms Yaskue was a late addition over the monk as you would have to make sure the story/design/art is in place as you test and create the game.
I don't understand how they can delude themselves SO bad STILL. It's funny how anyone thinks they'll even survive to December let alone February. Even if they manage the latter, I doubt they can survive beyond that time frame if they have to delay the Game even more. And let's not forget that they're still supposed to make Game changes and improvements right now, all of which probably haven't even started due to the MASSIVE striking everywhere.
they did... and featured it on IGN. Apparently, even they could buy a shill historian to tell us all the "facts" to correlate with wokeness to satisfied modern audiences
Have you ever played a Ubisoft game? The reason i ask is because they have a disclaimer in most if not all there assassins creed games, stating that it is a work of fiction! It dosen't have to be historically accurate.
Companies have no one to blame but themselves for the working from home policies backfiring. I was fine driving into the office every day. And was a proponent of being able to go back into the office after the 2 weeks to slow the spread. But after 2 years of working from home with no policy change, you get used to it and then you want to force people to go back to the office? Hah funny.
It’s surprising how some people are suddenly so fixated on historical accuracy, especially with games like Assassin’s Creed. Since when has the series ever been known for strict historical realism? Just look at Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood-can anyone provide historical evidence for the use of a paraglider during that time period? The way people are nitpicking now feels more like an excuse to discriminate or criticize because the main character is female and another character is Black, rather than focusing on the actual quality of the game.
If you don't see why people do complain about the main character not being Japanese in a feudal Japan setting and compare that to a paraglider being historically unaccurate than there is just no arguing with you. Just think about the motivations behind it. One is done for identity politics and the other is done to add a cool mechanic to a game which users might like. You can't just compare to historical inaccuracies and then say it's of the same consequence to people. People would've been outraged too if a white guy was the main character in the Egypt game. Or in Mirage the main character was a devout catholic living in a notoriously religious hostile Abbasid Caliphate. You can't compare that to some invention being shown 100 years prior to it's actual invention.
If your employees are so resistant to returning to the office, it sure as hell means you both have a problem with direction creating a toxic working environment (due to being forced to push DEI riddled horrible games) and employees actually willing to work (because, lol, this kind of resistance means most of them aren't exactly working hard at home either).
I get that you're likely only American. But productivity has been proven to increase when people work from home Again. You are only American. So might not understand this
@@bobsemple9341 I’m European so maybe you would draw better conclusions if you worked at the office again. Maybe you been scrolling on youtube in your work hours too much to understand this!
@@Thelivecoach that's unlikely. Firstly no person from Europe calls themselves European. Unless you're from one of the shit countries. Secondly. You're admitting to bring a crap worker if you're projecting your own laziness onto others. I work better from home. You're the type who isn't even productive in the office. You're a problem :)
Ubisoft has spent its goodwill that it earned in its early days. And this data protection breach is just one more nail in the coffin that used to be ubisoft. I feel sorry for the thousands of employees who will have to deal with the consequences of poor leadership... One more AAA that lost it's way and maybe now has to pay for it, dearly.
Given how deep into DEI the Canadian devs have gone, I have zero hope in Splinter Cell. Especially when parts of it looks like SW:Outlaws, which could mean many of the bugs carry over as well.
It doesn't help that disney is basically set the entire IP on fire by pandering to people who arnt even fans of the once beloved franchise. DEI is destroying IPs that are half a century old. My question to anyone on the fence about it is "what companies have become more successful with the implementation of DEI practices?"
You can't really say it's the worst time for them to go on strike if this is when the union contract is about end and they have to come to an agreement before it's signed. It's just the timing on when the contract has to start back up again.
I think we can reasonably surmise that Ubisoft only put Yasuke into AC Shadows because of the events of 2020, because if that weren’t the case, then why have they not spent their decades of game development highlighting black characters and stories before? It certainly wasn’t a priority for Ubisoft prior to 2020, as evidenced by their output. And when you look at the godawful inclusion of hip-hop and the absolutely botched attempts at historical research, you see a company that only wants to appear to care about black voices in the most ham-fisted, disingenuous way.
Ubisoft was also embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal a few years ago. This "woke" push in recent years is just them overcompensating. Just like Hollywood took a hard left after Harvey's crimes came to light.
Will slightly disagree with you. Oddysey made an absurd number of ancient greeks blacks in an even more hamfisted way in that all the features of the black characters were obviously Caucasian, but the skin color was sub saharan black. Also all the statues had white skin. In other words someone randomly changed some characters' skin color in order to seem more inclusive.
All ubisoft had to do was abandon uplay, abandon their excessive monetisation and price their games like the AA titles they are. They ignored the market so the market now ignores them.
The only thing that surprises me is they held on this long. I stopped buying anything from Ubisoft decades ago when they call all gamers software pirates.
Imho the low preorder numbers could also simply be the delayed consequence of Valhalla being not liked by the majority of the fanbase. It's just anecdotal but all AC-fan friends I have hated Valhalla, took those emotions and simply decided AC isn't for them anymore
I put over two hundred hours into AC Oddysey despite not liking a whole lot of choices they made with the game. I still had fun and was absorbed. I gave up on Valhalla after just 20 hours and still to this day have not had any desire to revisit it. Seriously, who makes a viking sim and thought it was a good odea to desynchronise you if you kill monks or peasants during a raid?
Whilst I didn't like Valhalla (loved Odyssey and Origins, so it's not the RPG format for me), Mirage still did fine and didn't have this much backlash. Valhalla was just not an AC game. It was unfocused I lacked a purpose in the game beyond Eivor wanting to conquer all of England for some reason I cannot fathom. Like why does he want that again? The defacto King of England living in a shitty shack in a tiny village doesn't help with my immersion either, at least give me a castle or something when I progress. But the main problem was it had nothing to do with assassin's creed. You could say the same for Odyssey but at least you still had the Templars and a protagonist with a decent motivation for wanting them dead. Eivor's motivation stops after he kills his parent's murderers and that's even before he sails to England. Raiding and stuff also doesn't fit in a game which used to desynchronise you for hurting the innocents and was underwhelming at the same time as well. Like pretending there were no rapes or slaves being taken is just historically whitewashing vikings. I get people don't want that in their games, but then maybe choosing that as your setting isn't the best choice ever.
Just for the IP's my friend. Like it or not especially AC is one of the biggest IP's in gaming with still limitless historical periods to make new games on. It's a franchise with infinite possibilities for distinct and unique sequels, that's one of the problem games like Call of Duty faced at some point they had done all the war even fought with guns and now resort to just remaking the same game over and over.
@@moshunit96No it won't that's a ridiculous statement, Rise of the Ronin has an Asian male and Sleeping Dogs had it too. You sound completely stupid thinking a character's skin colour makes a game automatically a masterpiece or popular. finish your third grade education it's important.
I think if Ubisoft can't push out AC:Shadows in Febuary and it's in an actual finished state then they are cooked. I don't see that happening though with their current track record and with law suits and staff going on strike.
I find it absolutely hilarious that the people Ubisoft hired and pampered with its DEI programs are now likely among the very people who have turned on the company and are striking when the company is at its weakest. Its just incredible... You would think they would wonder whether this was a good idea for a company that might end up being sold or taken private. If that happens, then how many of them will keep their jobs? Yet somehow they decided to strike now of all times. I guess the people striking must not really worry much about losing their jobs.
@@bobsemple9341 I'm not saying employees owe their employer anything. But if they want to keep their jobs, it seems like a terrible time to do this when they are already in so much deep shit.
@@simonphoenix3789 it's the perfect time wtf are u talking about? If ubisoft want to survive they have to accept what the union is asking for. And who give a toss if the company survives? They can simply work someplace else. You Americans are so obsessed with your employer. It's so pathetic lol
Remember when those women told us: “If your playing as Alexios or Male Eivor, then your not playing it as intended because Kassandra and Female Eivor are the main characters” 😅Also, if you play Male Eivor, you are met with a slew of masculine women with male features, and a never ending torrent of gay men propositioning you for sex. (Both Odyssey and Valhalla) but if you play as the female counterpart, your female is just rewriting history. Completely removing player agency, with women forced into the Olympic Games if ancient times, female Vikings rowing longships even tho it was massively considered a bad omen for a women to be on a boat in ancient times. None of this is helping feminism by pretending these bad things didn’t happen. Nor is it building awareness about the past. Nor are Neo feminists achieving anything by riding off the backs of men who built Ubisoft. Women who want to build a better world for feminist ideals, need to acknowledge the past, not hide it. Removing player agency by force feeding young people lies about the past is only making young women ignorant. And finally if you want to show you can achieve great works of art in women’s entertainment, you need to start your company by women for women from the start, not behaving as a parasite who infected a company built by men, only to say you can make it better and then fail horribly in the end. Ubisofts sins are just too many to count. We need all those great AC titles that were poisoned by this virus, turn into modding tools for modders to fix.
@@HouseTre007 you call women parasites and it's ok for TH-cam and when I call you out my comment gets deleted.. It's ok, you can like who ever you want
It’s stupid they are allowed to sue over this in France. If I hire you and I want you to work in my office that’s what you have to do. These are rich, spoiled people that apparently are lazy..
As a Indie Game Dev. They can just change the skin of yasuke. I am willing to bet there is at least 1 famous Japanese warrior that has this personality. It would take at most a day for me so I’m guessing it would be faster for a whole company
Lol that's stupid. Then why use the historical character to begin with just use the famous samurai they definitely can't have Yasuke's backstory because he is an African Man who actually existed. I am guessing you are not a writer, game design ≠ writing. Race swapping a historical character is unethical just like race swapping Cleopatra caused Egypt to hate Netflix. There is picture of Yasuke in Japanese Scrolls. I don't think they would like you confusing two different people from different backgrounds. I hope you aren't the writer of the games you are a part of. 😂
In hindsight, I'm glad my first job was a hard manual labor job where I'd spend 6-8 hours a day working in the hot summer sun. In my mind, only having to be at the office 3 days a week sounds incredible.
"I have/had to suffer, so it is only fair that others have to suffer too!" or "Child labor is good, because they learn that hard work is important!" Take your pick, unempathetic manchild.
Agreed but it seems the point is they moved out of the city for cheaper living with remote work but now have to move back and have a higher cost of living to be able to go to work which effectively cuts all of their pay. Or atleast that’s the way it sounded to me.
I wish I could say I'm surprised by this, but for DECADES the titan studios in the gaming world have been quite literally been acting like the games mafia. They stomp or absorb smaller studios, abuse their customers, start culture wars over games, gaslight us, dogpile players and other studio employees on socials like highschoolers, and then expect us to just empty our wallets and bend over. We've been telling them increasingly loudly that if they continue to fuck around they'll find out. Well, players are FINALLY starting to fight back with their wallets and the studios are starting to "find out". I'm not even sorry to see it happening anymore, I'm just sorry all the good artists/actors/writers/devs are the first to get fired. I really hope the survivors of all these studio implosions will learn something. They may be entertainers and artist, but they are first and foremost in CUSTOMER SERVICE... and we're CUSTOMERS FIRST and "fans" a distant second.
The only reason why the AC game based in Japan was scrapped is due to Playstation wanting the new AC entire to be a console exclusive for the PS4. So, they stopped concept and planning for the Japanese AC game then started development on Unity (the setting was Yves call), which was going to show case the new Anvil 2.0 engine and what it could do on modern consoles.
When you kick everyone out of your company, who doesn't fall in with a political ideology. It kind of makes it hard to make a game for the 99% Of gamers who do not share that Political ideology
It's like setting a game during the civil war in the US and putting some rando Japanese guy in there. Like if you want to make game about a black man there are plenty of settings that would perfectly fit and people would love to visit.
i;m gay and here's some advice for you ubisoft, anyone that brings an alphabet flag to a strike, gets sacked , you don't need those people working for you, they are nothing but trouble and why you are in this mess
@@berryven One of the most let's say "inclusive" companies ever and one feels the need to bring a messed up version of a flag that has nothing to do with what they are protesting. Ubisoft employees can't be saved.
This should be a wake up call to any gaming company that hire woke devs and woke ceo, your company will be a failure. OG gamers and normal gamers are sick and tired of woke ideology pushed in our faces and blamed for their mistakes.
At this point I'm having more fun with Ubisoft drama than playing their games.
First time I've been excited about ubisoft news😂
We have seen for years how Ubisoft is completely disconnected from what gamers want from them.
Last time I actually enjoyed something from Ubisoft was probably AssCreed Syndicate, and I never even got around to finishing it... so it's been awhile for me there 😊
Same
And its FREE
They probably want employees to quit so they can downsize while not paying unemployment from firing people.
😂I've seen clips of these employees protesting, now everything makes sense
Like all lefties, they think they’re cause is righteous and us gamers are toxic and problematic
damn, u might be right
"How do we fire all these woke tards without getting horrendous twitter backlash...?"
HR Strategy 101 - firing someone without actually firing them = lawsuit - A convenient excuse.
Only Ubisoft developers can look at a setting like feudal Japan and call it "boring". What a bunch of hacks.
I know right there's so much history
Racist hacks lol
And there was a time when I was dying for a japan times assassin's creed game. I haven't played them since black flag. I can't remember the last ubisoft game I was excited for or even played.
I'm sure it DID seem boring to them, probably because of how racially homogeneous it was.
boring means not diverse enough
You think their monetisation director will start blaming players for allowing their data to be stolen??
Probably blame them for being upset about being monetized further, claim they are taking food out of his kids mouths by not allowing the company to sell their data.
This is funny because it is true
It’s probably part of the monetisation strategy
Kindly reminder: that guy, yes, the one responsible for implementing gambling in kids games, thinks you're not a good person. How can you live with that? 😢
They'll find a way to blame "toxic gamers" for anything they don't like. It's raining? Those damn "toxic gamers"! 🤣🤣🤣
"Should get used to not owning our games..."
I look forward to the irony of Ubisoft getting used to not owning their company...
Maybe a new joke would be funny….😴
@@peoplelikefrank What's funny is that you think this was a joke...
@@SolantisA The attempt of a joke was a better joke.
To be honest you don't even pwn games on steam so he's correct get used to it
Once Tencent own Ubisoft every game will be a live service and have tons of microtransactions. Not sure if that will be better.
The fact that AC set in Japan, the one game people clamored after for over a decade and begged Ubi to make, was possibly the final nail in the coffin for Ubi is almost ironic. It should've been a slam dunk, easy money, tons of goodwill, millions of sales... instead, this is happening. How catastrophically bad has to be the c*ck-up-cascade of events that literally snatches defeat from the jaws of victory? This bad apparently.
"Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory"... I like that expression, gotta remember it 👍 You're absolutely right, it's mind boggling how tone deaf, ego-driven and stubborn the head of the company Yves Guillemot must be to rather tank his whole business before admitting any wrongdoing. Old fool. His failure is well deserved.
DEI ruins everything it touches.
@@thenightwalker7084 which of the non-white characters in this AC are you butthurt about?
This AC will be just as good as any other AC they've made. As in, it's AC, so it's all generic, derivative, lowest common denominator shit.
@@TheUncannyObserver I didn't say it was going to be some world-breaking work of art, it's Ubi after all. However, the setting and time period alone could've easily sold the game, even if it was going to be generic.
IGN will still give it 7/10 when the final buggy mess comes out, I'll bet money on it.
They are going to try and push out multiplayer at release which will likely make glitches even worse.
9/10 MaStErPiEcE
It can’t be worse than Unknown 9: Awakening… or would it?🤔
More like an 8
Can't spell ignorance without IGN
What makes this especially ironic to me is that I'm pretty sure they still own the Watch Dogs IP, the setting of which was conceptually built around the evils of collecting, buying and selling personal data. "Do as I say, not as I do," is it guys?
Every tech company delivers from on high, while being the exact opposite in practice.
That would make them experts, no? Lmao
Yes and the Boys is funded by Amazons. Companies have always done this.
Not just Watch Dogs, they’re literally Abstergo
Not to forget that upcoming concord sequel from playstation, fair games or something, where the main tag "eat the rich" from a rich company 😂😂😂
If they want to represent black culture so bad, why not make an AC based on African folklore.
Because THAT would be boring. Also we already got Egypt as a setting.
@@bigsyrup8567don't try Egypt again, remember that Cleopatra blackwashing? They're not having it
Because most people are not familliar with african history and would not sell well. Except for the africans of course.
I'd personally love to see AC set in Haiti. I know many don't know the culture, but I've grown up with Haitians all over Montreal, Qc. They have a really rich culture.
Because there is none
They must stop blaming their customers and take a good look in the mirror
yep pretty much every industry needs to learn that stop blaming the customer for your fuck ups
Exactly, the industry needs their community, fans and audience more than the ppl need the industry
“Our data”
Sorry dawg, not mine. I don’t play Ubisoft games
Me neither.
Good lads!
Their games are all shit now. The last ubisoft game I enjoyed was Ghost Recon wildlands.
All they had to do was make an AC game where you get to be a generic samurai and run around killing people as a samurai, just keeping it relatively generic and predictable, and it would’ve done well.
Same with skull and bones. All the had to do was AC black flag with multiplayer and instead we got a glorified mobile game for console and computer.
So the slop Ubisoft has been making with AC games of late? That just shows without cultural issues, gamers would continue to stupid and purchase games that gradually became worse and worse.
Yeah, there really is no value added by using a historical figure that is sparse on details vs a fully fictional character. It does nothing for me.
@@XBluDiamondX How does that make sense? If there is value in one that has to be created from scratch, then there is value in one with little details known. They are free to do things in the timeline someone that is said to be here or there. It's the same thing, except one existed and has been done countless times in historical fiction from videos games to film.
I mean, generic and predictable is the best description of any AC game, or Ubisoft games in general for that matter.
What a mismanaged company. Holy shit. Nobody thought it would be bad idea to make a Zimbabwean Samurai over there ?
Imagine if they used a Japanese character for AC Valhalla. Lol. It would be a shjt storm. They have to be blind to not see the backlash coming for AC Shadows.
CDPR is also mismanaged company. Remember CP77 mess?
They at least admitted.
After game release and was heavily criticized for messy game.
Too busy bragging about how many sold them "apologizing" which that "apology" was said to their investors.
Not to customers.
Funny thing is they hired some of the Ubi workers to work on their game.
@@xXSilentAgent47Xxcyberpunk ended up being a masterpiece after 2.0 and PL, at the beginning it was a buggy mess but the bones of a great game was at least there, after more time passed and they apologised and worked on the game instead of abandoning it and now it’s widely considered one of the best role playing games ever made
The skincolor of the protagonist in their upcoming release is the LEAST of Ubisoft’s troubles right now, regardless of what your echo chamber tells you, mate.
Being “woke” has never tanked a game. Being bad and boring has. Tons of “woke” games sell stupid numbers of games. Look at Overwatch defining a decade of shooters, and they used literal diversity scores during development.
The problem Ubisoft devs are facing is that their “wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle” approach to game design has failed. Same as Bethesda.
@@zerg0s Overwatch only recently started with the diversity scores.
Ironically it also started doing poorly rather recently.
I am not saying diversity tanks games. Its no causation. But its a correlation.
Because if devs focus on diversity so much, thats a symptom of the problem that they don't care enough about the core qualities of their game.
I'm still shocked this is the same company that gave us south park the stick of truth and the fractured but whole
Obsidian gave us Stick of Truth, Ubi just published it, Ubi San Fran developed Fractured but Whole though
I loved the Stick of Truth, personally did not enjoy the fractured but whole that much
@@SkylarTrahan yeah fractured butthole simply isn't as good. Stick of truth is so good though
That was the GIGACHAD named obsidian
OBSIDIAN give us NEW VEGAS so...
*Ubisoft has no future.*
*That, or the Chinese will own it.*
To the west, that will probably amount to the same thing 🫥
Honestly might be the best outcome. Chinese companies like products that make money, so maybe their games will be good again.
@@christianalanwilson434 You might want to look into the influence the CCP has on every single Chinese company. And then you might want to look into how the CCP stokes the political divide in America.
@@christianalanwilson434how many studios got aquired by tencent and released better games because of that?
At least if the Chinese buy it, maybe we can get a cool asscreed set in China, that's accurate.
A few people I know cancelled their AssCreed Shadows pre-orders after that trailer where they played hip-hop music during a fight. I just can't fathom the decision making process (or more likely the lack thereof) that lead them to this point.
That they still preorder Ubisoft games.. maybe you should look for new people
Did you know that preordering exists because highly sought-after PHYSICAL products may run out of stock when launched?
Did you also know that digitally distributed products CAN'T run out of stock?
It takes an elite, top 0.1% crayon muncher to preorder any game whatsoever. You should consider finding new friends.
They call everyone else racist yet did that.
woke DEI hires destroy your game and your team both upper and lower devs and management over time like it or not thats the truth if one DEI hire is on the dev team its only a matter of time before it flares up like this :)
They replaced all sense within their company with activists. There's no way they have any employees with normal views anymore.
At this point people need to steer clear of Ubisoft. Not worth playing or buying anything they put out.
People should have done that YEARS ago… I haven’t touched Ubisoft since all the shadiness with the model of Desmond. If people are so shocked about their practices now they are certified stupid.
I pretty much swore off Ubisoft when the abuse allegations came in and was swept under the rug. Considering the mediocrity of their later games after that incident, it seems that I wasn’t missing much…
Stopped playing after unity heard syndicate was ok but a zip line in assassins creed where parkour has always been a focus is weird
The last Ubisoft game I bought was Rayman Origins. I never got into AssCreed or Far Cry and now I’m honestly pretty proud of that
@@jaymartinez790bro, use some commas.
The return to office push lately is partly due to corporate/commercial rent. No point in owning big ass office space if no one wants to rent it from you.
It's the one thing they're doing that I actually support lol
Is going back to the office really that big of a deal? I mean its only 3 days. With all due respect a job is a job and if they need you to come in then I don't understand what the problem is. I always felt like working from home is a temporary luxury. I had family that also worked from home, and they are required to show up in person at least two or three days out of the week.
@@kinG_Killer888Yeah, I’m in software development, went back to the office as soon as I got the chance. People crying about it are so fucking arrogant and entitled, I swear. Most IT companies have great offices, with free food, drinks, fun rooms, high-end chairs, desks, etc. and a flexible work schedule, you can come and go as you please. Meanwhile people are clocking in at a factory at 6 am in the morning or working a 12 hour shift on an oil rig….
@@peterk2735 You are absolutely right!!!
@@peterk2735 I don't want to go to the office. Why? Because it's a waste of time, energy and money. I waste 2 hours on the metro crowded with 10 billion people. I hate that, everyone hates that. I waste money paying for said metro. Then it would require me to live in a more expensive area. Who's going to pay for the rent? I will. Instead of saving money, I'm required to spend money. Then my home setup is way better than what I have at the office and no, I can't come and go as I please. If you or others want to go to the office, but my guest, but don't drag others into it. I don't need to see my coworkers to do my job, it's a very individual job that I do, looking at tables with financial numbers all day. If I want to talk to them, I can call them.
Then in terms of energy, on the one day that I do go to work, when I return I fall dead in my bed and sleep for 10-12 hours. I don't have the energy to do anything else. Then the company gets to save money on rent, money it can spend on something else. They can also save on fun rooms, free drinks (we don't have that) and whatnot, I don't care about any of that, I never used any of that. I just want to work. I don't know how that's entitled and arrogant, wanting to do my job instead of free drinks. I have running water at home, I can drink that.
Seeing Ubisoft go belly up would be something nice to see but knowing that tencent might get there hands on Ubisoft scares me
I HATE TENCENT
@@MrCjosue24 I’m with you, I do not like them at all and them getting there hands on Ubisoft is something I do not want to happen
@@SkylarTrahanhopefully it never happens
why? I cant find myself to care who abuses ubisoft corpse.
@@MrCjosue24we can only hope but money always wins in the end
Ubisoft can't go bankrupt fast enough.
0:29 wtf is this flag bro. This thing literally looks like something out of r/place 😂😂💀
Whoever acquires Ubisoft should dissolve the company and restructure it under the new name. Ubi needs a brand nee start at this point
Also needs to sack most of its staff and hire normal people for once and not idiots who can't handle working 3 days a week and some reason feels the need to bring a hamas flag and pride flags the speds
The original developers from Assassin's Creed were long gone. The game devs they currently have are the ones who tarnished the game's company's reputation. Restructured or bought, the same people who started this infestation and ruined the series are the cause of downfall.
NEEEEE
Similar case to apex legends and battlefield: All the veterans went away and the new employees have no core leadership for the game or just go DEI
I don't know about that,but once they are bought out,I hope the games get better!😊
I used to look forward to Ubisoft games. I really miss the days when their games were compelling and innovative.
Funny how that statement also holds true for most AAA companies lately. Its an industry-wide problem, Ubisoft is just one of the first to fall.
8:31 By historical experts they meant Thomas Lockley a white man that went to Japan read the only two letters that even mention Yasuke and made entire books about the man that are fictional and then has constantly gone onto Wikipedia to mess around with the page and he is the main source for everything Yasuke in the last decade
*Lockley
@@grimgrahamch.4157 thank you will correct now felt like I had used the wrong last name
Incorrect. Him being white shouldn't be an issue, that's a stupid argument thinking you need to be of the same race as those that are of the culture to study it's history. I can't tell if that's racist or just stupid. It was an interest of his and he wrote the book alongside an actual writer. He lives in Japan and has for 20 years, thus why he worked at the university. Letters? One letter was by the Jesuits that brought him there and the other was part of Nobunaga's autobiography, a scroll. Kind of how we get history from anything, little or much of documentation from the past. Yes, he did fabricate scenarios in the book about events not in history, but that was actually said when the book was first put out. People are acting as if that was a hidden fact when they read like inserted scenarios because you can't have that level of detail through any accounts. He was editing information through his own handle, partly his name and had the place where he lived (can't remember it off top of my head), so it was never secretly done. You can look and see it was obviously him. He was adding his information to the subject, which many people do on Wiki as anyone can edit it, the only thing questionable is it seemed like a bit of promotion as the book was going to be released soon after. He is also writing a book on a Japanese man taken as a slave by the Chinese and ended up in Europe, going by the name of Christian in a period where no one would think a Japanese was outside the country. Far less known. I wonder the scandal that will bring up.
The only thing I don't like about Lockley was being a consultant on the game and never saying anything about it. Didn't have to, but would have been valuable information when he went to talk about it here and there. The rest is ill-informed TH-camrs, people that know nothing of Japanese history in the first place and racists that don't' want to see black people in anything. The Metatron has been the one channel that has covered the subject and drama accurately and would school anyone trying to peddle rumors and things historically untrue, if challenged.
@@blumiu2426 How much you got paid?
@@aziki001 Why would I need to be paid for stating facts? Because you disagree with them or you think it's defending something? No, ignorance offends me and it's rife on this subject and anything surrounding it. Lockley could be an activist for all I care, but making crap up just makes anyone only bolstered by hating this or that make arguments against DEI/ESG ring hollow if backed by stupid people.
Dunno why they didn't have Yasuke as a secondary character. Would have fitted in perfectly.
He should have been just a travel merchant for the main characters.
@@akumabazooka9169 yeah, nice idea. middleman for the jesuits.
@@stuartiles5498 Wouldn't that have made him a templar?
@@Nataruma not really, just a merchant/trader.
Theres also a lawsuit opportunity towards META for illegal purchase of stolen data.
Damn now this sounds important
Unfair on a human level?... Meanwhile those who where called essential workers then, now look at you with absolute disgust.
Yeah, I hate the current Ubisoft, but I have zero pity for mid-tier office wagies who want to be melodramatic and not go into the office.
@@bigsyrup8567 A lot of the issue stems from them moving to areas with a lot lower COL expenses when Covid was in full swing and now they are being told to basically "drop all that and suck up the higher COL costs" without a pay rise to compensate... Would you want to move to an area that has lower COL expenses and then be told by the company you work for to pack everything up and move back to an area that's way more expensive without getting a pay rise to help out? I sure as hell wouldn't!
I don't think it's unfair, but it is inefficient and annoying. And I don't get this "sa moara si capra vecinului" mindset. So, because essential workers suffered, others must also suffer? That's a very communist mindset. The logic of: if I'm poor, others should also be poor, but it's fine, because now we're all equally poor. How about getting richer?
I have solidarity with working folks and don’t take managements side, man what scab bootlickers we KF Ave here in the comments
Gonna cry that some people can easily worn from home and you can't?
To be honest do we really care if the employees leave, if the studios fold, or if ubisoft even collapses completely? As gamers they haven't produced a single good game for us since covid. I truly believe the covid era of game development resulted in mostly bad games from all AAA devs. People were pushed to wfh without any real processes and tools in place to manage virtual work, DEI took over hiring practices and game design, and live service/GaaS/monetization took over most games.
They were bad before. The fact so many gamers gobbled up their slop means you get what you deserve in the end, everything leading to this point by consumers not taking an issue until cultural divisions pointed a finger at them.
@@blumiu2426 *the US gov and companies shadow ban only ones saying DEI woke bad*
you - "no one is doing anything tee hee its all your fault"
yea no clearly ppl are pushing on this but clearly other powers far greater than us are shutting us down for years glad you have such a small IQ you can live in blissful ignorance to the world and how it plays out
"Well well well..if it isnt the consequences of our own actions" - Ubisoft 2024
6:26 trying to tell someone that its not true and have nothing to backup his claim is telling me that the character was going to be a Japanese male. I believe the insider that said they race swapped the character because they brought more knowledge of why ubisoft race swapped the character.
They didn’t race swap anybody. Yasuke is an actual historical figure, whose existence is referenced in Japanese history.
Read a book
@@AlexP-dz7ew "Race swap" is indeed the wrong phrase. *_Replaced_* is what OP meant.
@@AlexP-dz7ew No one dispute his existence. They race swapped a Japanese as a main character for him.
@@AlexP-dz7ewHe existed, but wasn’t a samurai. He was basically a slave.
@@georgeh4171he WAS a slave.
Who would have thought that assassins creed set in japan that folks have wanted for such a long time might be the very last game Ubisoft makes.
Oh well RiPbozo.
And to think they made more than I ever have to do it
Well they could've had an ok game if they actually made what people wanted instead of injecting their politics into their products.
Yasuke should have been an NPC, just like every other historical figure in all the other AC games. People want to play in feudal Japan as a Japanese character.
I say let it be Yasuke so Ubisoft can finally go bankrupt.
They never should've made AC feudal Japan. Japan was notoriously isolasionist they're not gonna let in some weird Templars or hooded people from the Middle-East. They should've just remade the original AC in the crusades. Also the setting has been done better by GOT and the only possible story has already been told by Shogun. There's nothing there for AC to win.
One of the reason employees are so upset to return to the office is probably because back during the pandemic they were promised they would not have to do so. That's what most tech companies did back then. This is exactly what happened with Blizzard. I had an interview with Blizzard back in 2021. I live in Canada, so I asked if I would have to move California when shit gets better, I remember the recruiter scoffing at me "no of course not, we'd never ask you to do that". 2 years later, everyone has to go back to the office or resign. I'm glad I didn't get the job in the end. I'm pretty sure this is exactly what's happening there too. I used to work at EA, and at least, they didn't break that promise... yet.
I’ll sound like an ass, but anyone over the age of 25 who believes a corporate recruiter or a “promise” from a company is extremely naive. Especially during the pandemic, any recruiter who claimed they wouldn’t make you go back to the office was flat out lying, because nobody knew what was going to happen or what regulations governments would impose after the lockdown was lifted
I'm almost certain they want to lose many of those jobs.
@@peterk2735typical American
@@bobsemple9341 He's not wrong. If OP wanted a guarantee he wouldn't been faced with losing his job vs moving to California, he would have demanded a written and signed agreement the company wouldn't force him to return to office. I doubt a company would want to make a contract like that, but it's the only way not to be get screwed over.
I’m shocked that 1 million people actually bought Star Wars outlaws 🤣
Doesn't shock me. Just slap a popular IP onto a game and its deluded fans will come out in droves.
Can I just say, I think it's hilarious that Ubi employees think it's "unfair at a human level" to be expected to go into an office to go to work 😂
Next in the News: "Former Ubisoft Employees complain about foodbank lines and the smell of the homeless"
Yes. People in European countries value their time, if they don't need to work from office why should they be forced?
The American mind will never comprehend a work life balance
@@Fishy-i2gthey're French so they won't. It's not America
The French are going down fast, just like the Germans.
How dare they expect their employees to be happy with only 4 days off per week
A lot of cultural insensitivity they probably saw even started long before DEI and the like.
I got in trouble at a job for being "racist" in 2015. Well not in trouble but she openly threatened to call me such...because I tried to get her to understand that our offshore team was NOT in the US and had a different culture and she needed to take that into account.
To some of these people racism is literally just daring to say they can't assume and treat everyone as if they were American in America.
To be fair, America is really all that matters in the end.
Where was the offshore team?
@@bigsyrup8567 For whom? The US has something like 4.25% of the world population. And if anything, it's a very different culture to the rest of the world, sometimes for the better, other times for the worse. I watch US news more for entertainment value, not because it greatly impacts my day to day life.
Well, were you being racist?
When I hear "modern audience" I identify as "Non-BUYnary"
New favorite youtuber ❤ man to man i really appreciate how you upload videos on the truth surrounding the games industry but always seem to keep your videos free of emotion and biase. Really appreciate you homie
Just realized I have a bot ass username. Will be changing lmao.
Never forget, Endymion doesn't care for truth, he doesn't care whether there is any proof to these claims, he is only interested in content and in stirring up shit, doesn't mean he's always wrong, but I find that approach detestable nonetheless.
Endymion is a pathological liar and grifter. He was a failed Souls-games lore channel before grifting on the anti-woke movement. He has no insider contacts, he just makes stuff up to appeal to his audience which would turn him to shreds once the truth comes out
@@Buexta it’s painfully obvious that many content creators, and consequentially their audiences, have elected to use certain ‘buzzwords’ to explain every problem in every industry. Videos titled with words like ‘Woke’ and ‘DEI’ pandering to people who want simple answers to actual problems, something to blame for all the crap these companies are expecting us to spend our money on. Saying that ‘woke’ is what’s killing gaming is just lazy. Games with diversity have done exceptionally well, while others have failed spectacularly. BG3 has all the ‘woke’ elements that normally have people freaking out, yet it won game of the year. Spiritfarer, Stardew Valley, Fallout, etc are all examples of great games that have themes, content, and/or characters that could easily be classified as ‘woke’ yet are still beloved games.
Usually, what ends up differentiating a good game from a bad one is the passion that went into its creation. People who are working on something they genuinely care for, who want it to be as good as it can be, who aren’t pressured into compromising their projects by executives who only care about mass-market appeal and push for lazy products that are easily digestible for simple-minded audiences. How can anyone create anything meaningful and novel when the higher-ups are too fearful of a flop to green-light a game that takes risks? A game that has a strong identity and creative ideas? You can’t, which is why we don’t get games like that. Not from the big studios anyway.
I'll buy the game if they put a japanese man as a protagonist in AC Shadows, yasuke can be there as a side-character giving missions out, just like other AC games where "historical" figures (even though he's not) have been included which in ALL of the AC games...
The biggest issue is how historically and culturally wrong they got about items, architecture and lack of actual research clearly in Japan’s culture
You mean except Japan and China have interacting for a millennia until the sengoku period right.
This extends to architecture as well; the ancient capital of Heian-kyo was modeled on what is today Xian in northwest China, then the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and for a period, the Japanese regularly sent envoys to China, and many Japanese students studied and took the civil service exams in China.
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@@joeblack2809 😂😂😂 So are you an Ubisoft Employee or a rare unicorn trying to defend Ubisoft? I know the history quite well. How they are most likely immigrants from China though a stroke would be triggered if uttered to Japanese chap especially a nationalist.
What you raise isn’ completely off the mark but what I am talking about is the very specific problems in the game been pointed like errors in emblems of the three clans and architecture and so on and the big fail with the Nagasaki Gate
@@joeblack2809 The Heian period is HUNDREDS of years removed from the end of the Sengoku era. That's like saying a game set in Industrial Revolution London should look like pre-Norman invasion London.
@@fattiger6957 EXACTLY!
Which only PROVES the Chinese cultural influence on Japanese in its early history and then later throughout the centuries 😂🤣😂.
Hell how tf did you know think Buddhism spread TO AN ISLAND?!?
They fucked up Vahalla as well its shame they used to be great at this stuff.
16:46 for the sue stuff
if historical experts weren't brought in from the start that in itself confirms Yaskue was a late addition over the monk as you would have to make sure the story/design/art is in place as you test and create the game.
I would have thought they would be some of the first people you hire when making a game like this. Its just bizarre.
I don't understand how they can delude themselves SO bad STILL. It's funny how anyone thinks they'll even survive to December let alone February. Even if they manage the latter, I doubt they can survive beyond that time frame if they have to delay the Game even more. And let's not forget that they're still supposed to make Game changes and improvements right now, all of which probably haven't even started due to the MASSIVE striking everywhere.
Literally if Obisoft hired Japanese Historians/ Experts half of these “ historical inaccuracies “ would be avoided
And it wouldn't have been hard, considering Japan is one of the most studied countries when it comes to history and culture.
@@fattiger6957 but it’s Ubisoft being lazy so it was expected
they did... and featured it on IGN.
Apparently, even they could buy a shill historian to tell us all the "facts" to correlate with wokeness to satisfied modern audiences
Have you ever played a Ubisoft game? The reason i ask is because they have a disclaimer in most if not all there assassins creed games, stating that it is a work of fiction! It dosen't have to be historically accurate.
@@shawnhanowell3050 sure , but they getting hate from Japanese people because of these “ mistakes “ part of the reason they delayed the game
The game wont ever be better than a 70/100 as long as Yasuke is the main character
Companies have no one to blame but themselves for the working from home policies backfiring.
I was fine driving into the office every day. And was a proponent of being able to go back into the office after the 2 weeks to slow the spread.
But after 2 years of working from home with no policy change, you get used to it and then you want to force people to go back to the office? Hah funny.
LOL. Dude the issue are with those they hired who are NOT in the cities with their offices
It’s surprising how some people are suddenly so fixated on historical accuracy, especially with games like Assassin’s Creed. Since when has the series ever been known for strict historical realism? Just look at Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood-can anyone provide historical evidence for the use of a paraglider during that time period? The way people are nitpicking now feels more like an excuse to discriminate or criticize because the main character is female and another character is Black, rather than focusing on the actual quality of the game.
If you don't see why people do complain about the main character not being Japanese in a feudal Japan setting and compare that to a paraglider being historically unaccurate than there is just no arguing with you. Just think about the motivations behind it. One is done for identity politics and the other is done to add a cool mechanic to a game which users might like. You can't just compare to historical inaccuracies and then say it's of the same consequence to people. People would've been outraged too if a white guy was the main character in the Egypt game. Or in Mirage the main character was a devout catholic living in a notoriously religious hostile Abbasid Caliphate. You can't compare that to some invention being shown 100 years prior to it's actual invention.
And the best part is, upper management will just run off to some other job to ruin some other thing you like
*_IF_* Shadows is released, it very well could be the last Ubisoft game to ever be released.
If your employees are so resistant to returning to the office, it sure as hell means you both have a problem with direction creating a toxic working environment (due to being forced to push DEI riddled horrible games) and employees actually willing to work (because, lol, this kind of resistance means most of them aren't exactly working hard at home either).
I get that you're likely only American. But productivity has been proven to increase when people work from home
Again. You are only American. So might not understand this
@@bobsemple9341 I’m European so maybe you would draw better conclusions if you worked at the office again. Maybe you been scrolling on youtube in your work hours too much to understand this!
@@Thelivecoach that's unlikely. Firstly no person from Europe calls themselves European. Unless you're from one of the shit countries.
Secondly. You're admitting to bring a crap worker if you're projecting your own laziness onto others.
I work better from home.
You're the type who isn't even productive in the office. You're a problem :)
Ubisoft has spent its goodwill that it earned in its early days. And this data protection breach is just one more nail in the coffin that used to be ubisoft. I feel sorry for the thousands of employees who will have to deal with the consequences of poor leadership... One more AAA that lost it's way and maybe now has to pay for it, dearly.
It's honestly a travesty how far this company has fallen.
I used to be proud of wearing Ubisoft hoodie but now I'm embarassed to even taking that out of my closet.
Given how deep into DEI the Canadian devs have gone, I have zero hope in Splinter Cell. Especially when parts of it looks like SW:Outlaws, which could mean many of the bugs carry over as well.
They havent worker on a splinter cell game in over 10 years tho
seek help
@@BlackWolf-vs6uoyea that means all the original creators are probably gone
UbuyShit games should be enforced to use Steam system on Steam platform, not UbuyShit platform...
When you have a Star Wars game sell so bad you really got branding and problems of critical danger
It doesn't help that disney is basically set the entire IP on fire by pandering to people who arnt even fans of the once beloved franchise. DEI is destroying IPs that are half a century old.
My question to anyone on the fence about it is "what companies have become more successful with the implementation of DEI practices?"
You can't really say it's the worst time for them to go on strike if this is when the union contract is about end and they have to come to an agreement before it's signed. It's just the timing on when the contract has to start back up again.
This is Midway all over again. Back when they released Blacksite, the company was on the verge of collapse. Let's just say that game was... awful...
Adding woke is what messed it up, dont serve a lie. Cut the woke out, make an awesome game and watch everyone say its cool.
I think we can reasonably surmise that Ubisoft only put Yasuke into AC Shadows because of the events of 2020, because if that weren’t the case, then why have they not spent their decades of game development highlighting black characters and stories before? It certainly wasn’t a priority for Ubisoft prior to 2020, as evidenced by their output. And when you look at the godawful inclusion of hip-hop and the absolutely botched attempts at historical research, you see a company that only wants to appear to care about black voices in the most ham-fisted, disingenuous way.
Ubisoft was also embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal a few years ago. This "woke" push in recent years is just them overcompensating. Just like Hollywood took a hard left after Harvey's crimes came to light.
Will slightly disagree with you. Oddysey made an absurd number of ancient greeks blacks in an even more hamfisted way in that all the features of the black characters were obviously Caucasian, but the skin color was sub saharan black. Also all the statues had white skin. In other words someone randomly changed some characters' skin color in order to seem more inclusive.
@@agonsfitness7308 That is interesting to know. Though my point was more about main characters - I could have made that clearer in my original post
All ubisoft had to do was abandon uplay, abandon their excessive monetisation and price their games like the AA titles they are.
They ignored the market so the market now ignores them.
No matter how much work they done. I'm not interested in Yasuke story
The only thing that surprises me is they held on this long. I stopped buying anything from Ubisoft decades ago when they call all gamers software pirates.
Imho the low preorder numbers could also simply be the delayed consequence of Valhalla being not liked by the majority of the fanbase. It's just anecdotal but all AC-fan friends I have hated Valhalla, took those emotions and simply decided AC isn't for them anymore
Valhalla was my last Ubisoft game. It was around that time that the decline of quality and dumb storytelling finally convinced me that AC was dead
Vahalla I on played for the viking setting.
I put over two hundred hours into AC Oddysey despite not liking a whole lot of choices they made with the game. I still had fun and was absorbed. I gave up on Valhalla after just 20 hours and still to this day have not had any desire to revisit it. Seriously, who makes a viking sim and thought it was a good odea to desynchronise you if you kill monks or peasants during a raid?
Valhalla was the best selling AC game ever so i doubt that.
Whilst I didn't like Valhalla (loved Odyssey and Origins, so it's not the RPG format for me), Mirage still did fine and didn't have this much backlash. Valhalla was just not an AC game. It was unfocused I lacked a purpose in the game beyond Eivor wanting to conquer all of England for some reason I cannot fathom. Like why does he want that again? The defacto King of England living in a shitty shack in a tiny village doesn't help with my immersion either, at least give me a castle or something when I progress. But the main problem was it had nothing to do with assassin's creed. You could say the same for Odyssey but at least you still had the Templars and a protagonist with a decent motivation for wanting them dead. Eivor's motivation stops after he kills his parent's murderers and that's even before he sails to England. Raiding and stuff also doesn't fit in a game which used to desynchronise you for hurting the innocents and was underwhelming at the same time as well. Like pretending there were no rapes or slaves being taken is just historically whitewashing vikings. I get people don't want that in their games, but then maybe choosing that as your setting isn't the best choice ever.
February not Febuary
Ubisoft falling harder than the Hindenburg.
Ubisoft to customer "we want you back 😭😭😭"
Me: But I'm doing you a favorite by Not Owning any your game.
btw a TENCENT buyout is not good either, we dont need publishers going to china
i could care less
@@Demiurge13 Couldn't care less. Could care less, means you still care. smh
@@coppermine64 you know what i meant genius
I don't get why people kept saying Tencent would like to buy Ubisoft, why would they buy garbage?
Just for the IP's my friend. Like it or not especially AC is one of the biggest IP's in gaming with still limitless historical periods to make new games on. It's a franchise with infinite possibilities for distinct and unique sequels, that's one of the problem games like Call of Duty faced at some point they had done all the war even fought with guns and now resort to just remaking the same game over and over.
Whether or not they planned it the game is now coming out on Black History Month.
Oh ffs. Lol. Im hoping they delay it even longer and give us a Japanese male lead character. Thats the only thing that will save the game.
@@moshunit96No it won't that's a ridiculous statement, Rise of the Ronin has an Asian male and Sleeping Dogs had it too. You sound completely stupid thinking a character's skin colour makes a game automatically a masterpiece or popular. finish your third grade education it's important.
I think if Ubisoft can't push out AC:Shadows in Febuary and it's in an actual finished state then they are cooked. I don't see that happening though with their current track record and with law suits and staff going on strike.
I find it absolutely hilarious that the people Ubisoft hired and pampered with its DEI programs are now likely among the very people who have turned on the company and are striking when the company is at its weakest. Its just incredible... You would think they would wonder whether this was a good idea for a company that might end up being sold or taken private. If that happens, then how many of them will keep their jobs? Yet somehow they decided to strike now of all times. I guess the people striking must not really worry much about losing their jobs.
Those that get special treatment, believe equality is unjust. -Thomas Sowell
Ad-libbed but close enough.
The snake eating its tail
Now is the perfect time to strike wtf are u talking about? Plus employees owe their employer nothing
@@bobsemple9341 I'm not saying employees owe their employer anything. But if they want to keep their jobs, it seems like a terrible time to do this when they are already in so much deep shit.
@@simonphoenix3789 it's the perfect time wtf are u talking about? If ubisoft want to survive they have to accept what the union is asking for.
And who give a toss if the company survives? They can simply work someplace else.
You Americans are so obsessed with your employer. It's so pathetic lol
Every video you make with Ubisoft, "This is as bad as it gets for Ubisoft."
He is brain dead sadly like many of his viewers who spout nonsense.
Remember when those women told us: “If your playing as Alexios or Male Eivor, then your not playing it as intended because Kassandra and Female Eivor are the main characters” 😅Also, if you play Male Eivor, you are met with a slew of masculine women with male features, and a never ending torrent of gay men propositioning you for sex. (Both Odyssey and Valhalla) but if you play as the female counterpart, your female is just rewriting history. Completely removing player agency, with women forced into the Olympic Games if ancient times, female Vikings rowing longships even tho it was massively considered a bad omen for a women to be on a boat in ancient times. None of this is helping feminism by pretending these bad things didn’t happen. Nor is it building awareness about the past. Nor are Neo feminists achieving anything by riding off the backs of men who built Ubisoft. Women who want to build a better world for feminist ideals, need to acknowledge the past, not hide it. Removing player agency by force feeding young people lies about the past is only making young women ignorant. And finally if you want to show you can achieve great works of art in women’s entertainment, you need to start your company by women for women from the start, not behaving as a parasite who infected a company built by men, only to say you can make it better and then fail horribly in the end. Ubisofts sins are just too many to count. We need all those great AC titles that were poisoned by this virus, turn into modding tools for modders to fix.
Who hurt you bro? Why you hate women? That's the most incel shit I've read in ages. Calling them parasites.. oof.
Valhalla broke me after I desynchronised for killing a monk during a raid on a monastery.
I just don’t like women tbh
@@HouseTre007 you call women parasites and it's ok for TH-cam and when I call you out my comment gets deleted..
It's ok, you can like who ever you want
Blizzard: being Blizzard.
Ubisoft: Hold my beer.
It’s stupid they are allowed to sue over this in France. If I hire you and I want you to work in my office that’s what you have to do. These are rich, spoiled people that apparently are lazy..
As a Indie Game Dev. They can just change the skin of yasuke. I am willing to bet there is at least 1 famous Japanese warrior that has this personality.
It would take at most a day for me so I’m guessing it would be faster for a whole company
Lol that's stupid. Then why use the historical character to begin with just use the famous samurai they definitely can't have Yasuke's backstory because he is an African Man who actually existed. I am guessing you are not a writer, game design ≠ writing. Race swapping a historical character is unethical just like race swapping Cleopatra caused Egypt to hate Netflix. There is picture of Yasuke in Japanese Scrolls. I don't think they would like you confusing two different people from different backgrounds. I hope you aren't the writer of the games you are a part of. 😂
How's that wokeness working out for you, Ubisoft?
Ubisoft literally thought it'll get away with ridiculing its own customers.
4:00 Praise be to Lord GabeN.
If they sell out to Tencent, I will never play an Ubisoft game again.
Striking because you have to be in the office 3 days a week is so entitled. 3 days seems very reasonable.
In hindsight, I'm glad my first job was a hard manual labor job where I'd spend 6-8 hours a day working in the hot summer sun. In my mind, only having to be at the office 3 days a week sounds incredible.
Very
@@qu1253i know some people have it so easy and still complain. Soft
"I have/had to suffer, so it is only fair that others have to suffer too!"
or
"Child labor is good, because they learn that hard work is important!"
Take your pick, unempathetic manchild.
Agreed but it seems the point is they moved out of the city for cheaper living with remote work but now have to move back and have a higher cost of living to be able to go to work which effectively cuts all of their pay. Or atleast that’s the way it sounded to me.
I wish I could say I'm surprised by this, but for DECADES the titan studios in the gaming world have been quite literally been acting like the games mafia. They stomp or absorb smaller studios, abuse their customers, start culture wars over games, gaslight us, dogpile players and other studio employees on socials like highschoolers, and then expect us to just empty our wallets and bend over. We've been telling them increasingly loudly that if they continue to fuck around they'll find out.
Well, players are FINALLY starting to fight back with their wallets and the studios are starting to "find out".
I'm not even sorry to see it happening anymore, I'm just sorry all the good artists/actors/writers/devs are the first to get fired.
I really hope the survivors of all these studio implosions will learn something. They may be entertainers and artist, but they are first and foremost in CUSTOMER SERVICE... and we're CUSTOMERS FIRST and "fans" a distant second.
Its like the never ending story of sorrow
The only reason why the AC game based in Japan was scrapped is due to Playstation wanting the new AC entire to be a console exclusive for the PS4. So, they stopped concept and planning for the Japanese AC game then started development on Unity (the setting was Yves call), which was going to show case the new Anvil 2.0 engine and what it could do on modern consoles.
Breaking GPDR that’s massive here in Europe
When you kick everyone out of your company, who doesn't fall in with a political ideology. It kind of makes it hard to make a game for the 99% Of gamers who do not share that Political ideology
I’m very shocked they went through this much effort to not show up to work
Europeans love to go on strike.
I wouldn't mind buying a copy of shadows if it meant Ubisoft not being bought by tencent. Screw tencent.
Ubi can change lots of things in Shadows but having a game set in Japan and having a main character who isn't Japanese is a game killer.
It's like setting a game during the civil war in the US and putting some rando Japanese guy in there. Like if you want to make game about a black man there are plenty of settings that would perfectly fit and people would love to visit.
And it all started by going a little woke. And it's all gonna end by going Broke
i;m gay and here's some advice for you ubisoft, anyone that brings an alphabet flag to a strike, gets sacked , you don't need those people working for you, they are nothing but trouble and why you are in this mess
Im gay too and I agree. For representation, we need to be represented like a normal human being, not a forced one for the sake of it.
@@berryven One of the most let's say "inclusive" companies ever and one feels the need to bring a messed up version of a flag that has nothing to do with what they are protesting.
Ubisoft employees can't be saved.
Remember how we were playing AC 2 and wished for the developer to take the ninja assassin gameplay to feudal Japan? Oh well.
If Yasuke is left in i will not be buying it.. I do not want to play fake Wikipedia history
"Lets make a Tom Clancy Splinter Cell remake for modern audiences!"
A splinter Cell without Tom Clancy is NOT a splinter cell.
This should be a wake up call to any gaming company that hire woke devs and woke ceo, your company will be a failure. OG gamers and normal gamers are sick and tired of woke ideology pushed in our faces and blamed for their mistakes.
"You Couldn't Live with Your Own Failure, Where Did that Bring You? Back to Me" said Steam to the failure, Ubisoft.
Ubisoft needs to get used to not selling any games. 😉👍🏻
1:37 no shadows, ambient occlusion? Thats bad. Especially this close to a light source.